Ii50 Medical properties of the Passiflorce. 



jnained thus hanging without the slightest motion. Exactly 

 an hour after the dose had been given, each lizard took to 

 flight, one after the other with intervals of five minutes, pre- 

 cisely in the order they had taken their doses. 



III. The infusion was then exhibited to birds of different 

 species, and to frogs. In the latter, catalepsy was more easily 

 induced than in any other instance. The effects were similar 

 to those detailed in the preceding experiments : a very small 

 dose producing a slight convulsion, a larger dose causing ca- 

 talepsy, and death ensuing when it was still increased. It may 

 likewise be remarked, that when these animals recovered from 

 the cataleptic stage, the use of all their functions was com- 

 pletely restored. When death ensued, the following were gene- 

 rally the appearances on dissection. 



The arachnoid membrane was slightly injected. All the 

 blood-vessels of the lungs filled with blood. A great dilata- 

 tion of the auricles and ventricles of the heart, which were 

 filled with black blood nearly fluid. These were the only de- 

 viations which had taken place from the natural state of the 

 parts affected. 



IV. I gave to a middle-sized dog two table-spoonfuls of the 

 infusion, which instantaneously rendered him cataleptic. He 

 remained standing with the legs wider apart than natural, the 

 neck also a little stiffened, the eyes fixed and vacant, the pupil 

 much dilated, respiration nearly stopped, the pulse very feeble. 

 I at first placed him upright with the two fore feet against the 

 wall. In this situation, I turned his head at pleasure, and it 

 always remained as I placed it. I next laid him on his belly, 

 stretching his limbs as far as possible, then upon his back, and 

 in short in almost every variety of position, however constrained 

 or unnatural, and in all these attitudes he made not the least 

 motion, although his limbs preserved the suppleness of the 

 living animal. This state continued one hour, when the dog. 

 after a slight chill, perfectly recovered. 



